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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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PSALM 88
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A prayer of one who feels forsaken and who asks whether the Lord’s lovingkindness shall be declared in the grave.
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<center><span class='small'>A SONG OR PSALM FOR THE SONS OF KORAH, TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN UPON MAHALATH LEANNOTH, MASCHIL OF HEMAN THE EZRAHITE.</span></center>
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<span class='smallcaps'>O Lord</span> God of my salvation, I have cried day <i>and</i> night before thee:
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Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
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For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
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I am counted with them that go down into the <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/88/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 28: 1; Ps. 143: 7; 2 Ne. 24: 15.">pit</a>: I am as a man <i>that hath</i> no strength:
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Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/88/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 31: 12.">rememberest</a> no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
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Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
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Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted <i>me</i> with all thy waves.  Selah.
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Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: <i>I am</i> shut up, and I cannot come forth.
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Mine <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/88/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 38: 10.">eye</a> mourneth by reason of <sup>b</sup><a href="ps/88/9b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Affliction.">affliction</a>: <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
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Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead?  shall the dead arise <i>and</i> praise thee?  Selah.
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Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave?  <i>or</i> thy faithfulness in destruction?
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Shall thy wonders be known in the dark?  and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
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But unto thee have I cried, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; and in the morning shall my prayer <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/88/13a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB come before thy face.">prevent</a> thee.
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Lord</span>, why castest thou off my soul?  <i>why</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="ps/88/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 11: 27 (1-27); 2 Sam. 12: 11 (1-25); 1 Chr. 21: 8 (1-8).">hidest</a> thou thy face from me?
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I <i>am</i> afflicted and ready to die from <i>my</i> youth up: <i>while </i>I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
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Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
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They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
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Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, <i>and</i> mine acquaintance into darkness.
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